You can probably think back to a time not too long ago when you considered industry boundaries to be a very real thing: finance companies were finance companies, entertainment companies were entertainment companies. But now you can look back on your naiveté with a condescending smile — oh you sweet…

Since the dawn of computer technology, the ways in which we’ve interacted with machines have been in constant flux. The defining interface of the 2010s was surely the mobile display, enabled by touchscreen technology. Now, in the 2020s, we’re seeing the arrival of a slew of new interfaces — VR…

This article is about Whiplash (2014), written/directed by Damien Chazelle I know it’s been 7 years since this film came out, but I watched it again recently with my girlfriend so it’s been a topic of discussion lately. Despite its toxic subject matter, it’s one of my favorite movies of…

Note: I wrote this in 2017, go easy on me We make a lot of decisions. Some estimate that we make something like 35,000 decisions every day, and I believe it. Every movement we make is a decision, every word we say is a decision, every action we take is…

Note: I wrote this in 2017, go easy on me One hundred and eight billion. That’s how about how many humans have ever lived, according to the Population Reference Bureau. That’s a lot of people. That’s a lot of lives lived, words spoken, and thoughts thought. …

Note: I wrote this in 2017, go easy on me Three hours of sweaty backs. That’s apparently what it takes to stand front row for Twenty One Pilots these days. We had all struggled to get up close. We wanted the experience of a lifetime. We wanted to experience our…